Re: [RFC resend] arm64: mt8173: Fix Acer Chromebooks mmsys probe problem

Hi Philipp,

On Thursday, 19 October 2017 16:01:54 EEST Philipp Zabel wrote:

On Thu, 2017-10-19 at 13:26 +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:

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In theory the MMSYS device tree identifier is matches twice, by the clk
driver and the DRM subsystem. But the kernel only matches the first
driver for a device (clk) and discards the second one. This breaks
graphics on mt8173 and most probably on mt2701 as well.

MMSYS in Mediatek SoCs has some registers to control clock gates (which is
used in the clk driver) and some registers to enable the differnet blocks
of the display subsystem. The kernel uses the binding to load the central
comoponent of the distplay subsystem, which in place probes all the other
components and enables the present ones in the MMSYS.

We found us with the problem, that we need to change and therefor break
one
of the two bindings, or the DRM one or the clock driver one.

Apart from that the DRM subysystem does access the MMSYS registers via
relaxed reads/writes. But the it should to so via regmap, as the
registers are shared.

Possible solutions:
1) We add a new mediatek,mt8173-mmsys-clk node, which lives as a
simple-mfd under the actual mmsys node. We change the clock driver to
probe on this binding. This would make sense as the clock gate register
live completly in the MMSYS configuration registers.

The reason why the drm driver matches against the mmsys node in the
first place is that we wanted to avoid 2).

Why did you want to avoid 2) ?

Also, mmsys is not a pure clock controller, as it also contains the
display path configuration in its register space.

Which makes the mmsys related to display, but more in a syscon (combining 
clocks and routing, and I assume other miscellaneous features that wouldn't 
fit nicely in the other display-related IP cores) way than actually being part 
of the display subsystem. Or does mmsys only provide display-related features 
?

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2) As the nodes of the DRM subsystem just need some of the registers of
MMSYS we add a new binding mediatek,mt8173-dispsys which probes the
central component of the DRM system. It has only a handle to mt8173-mmsys
to access the registerspace via regmap functions.

In this patchset I implemented 2). Please take into account, that this is
a RFC. I had no time to actually test the verison on real HW. Some of the
register accesses should be done using regmap_update instead of
regmap_read + regmap_write.

This RFC shall only show how solution 2) would look like. We can use it as
discussion to see how we circumvent the actual situation.

Or we could leave the bindings untouched and create one platform device
from the other or even set up the clocks from the drm driver?

Does mmsys provide features (such as clocks) to non-display IP cores ?

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart